Choose what the record represents before adding minutes
If you want to measure active editing, do not automatically add every minute the computer spends exporting. If you want to reserve the full period your equipment is occupied, waiting may also need room in the plan. These are different criteria: choose what each record means and make clear what you compare in Ora.
Ora supports actual-time tracking with a timer or manual corrections. Planned-versus-recorded comparison is a Pro feature; estimates remain distinct from recorded work. This guide suggests a way to use those data, not automatic render detection or a feature measuring attention.
An example: eight minutes editing, twenty waiting
Imagine a fictional task: preparing a video for review. You edit for eight minutes, then the computer takes twenty to generate the file. During export you step away and do no other part of the assignment. The complete period occupies twenty-eight minutes, but this example describes only eight minutes of active editing.
Before starting, decide whether the record represents active work or the whole production period. Do not alternate criteria across days and then interpret the difference as a change in pace. These figures are illustrative, not measurements of a computer or universal duration advice.
Reserve waiting that constrains your day
Even if excluded from active editing, an export may determine when you can review and send the file. Leave room for that wait when a later step depends on it. Ora’s sphere represents allocated time with a hard twenty-four-hour limit; that limit does not calculate computer export time.
In this example, file review happens after export finishes. Starting the process does not complete that review. If you work on something else while waiting, avoid describing the same twenty minutes as twenty minutes of active work on each of two tasks.
If the timer kept running, correct it using real information
Ora publishes timer tracking and manual actual-time corrections. If a record includes waiting that your chosen criterion excludes, establish the interval you actually know before changing it. Do not subtract twenty minutes just because this article uses that example; use what you can reconstruct from your session.
You might add your own note: “I record editing and review; export waiting remains in the plan.” This is suggested wording, not a special field or automatic Ora label. Preserve uncertainty when an interval is unknown rather than invent precision.
Compare tasks recording the same kind of time
A Pro planned-versus-recorded report lets you review what you budgeted and entered. Its interpretation depends on your recording: a total including waiting is not directly comparable with one excluding it. Exporting CSV preserves data but does not establish a consistent criterion.
Before changing the next estimate, check whether the work, waiting or recording method changed. Ora does not establish that an export is correct, a video approved or a recorded period billable. Check the public feature brief for current capabilities and states, then start with a sample task.